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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 25/09/2026

In this strange fantasy story, a modern teen is mistaken for a knight. A masked doctor insists the "knight" must save the kingdom from an invincible clockwork dragon. Featuring weird monsters, centaur highwaymen, a zombie horse, and other oddities! amazon.com/dp/B0D3X1W8K8

The cover of William and the Clockwork Devil, a fantasy story by D.N. Schmidt. It features a plague doctor, gears, and a knight.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 25/09/2026

Flop Back To Life (2026) - A lonely fisherman rescues an injured trout from a net and takes her home. While she recovers, they grow closer together. Can she reel in his heart? Or will this relationship be catch and release?

The article headline “Amazon officially brings Chris Hemsworth’s 2026 action thriller flop back to life on streaming.” Above it is a picture of Chris Hemsworth.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 22/09/2026

Comic Book Letterer: Oh man, I have to write this guy’s name again? Better be careful with the kerning.

A comic book panel featuring Aquaman talking to a shark-like character called Titanus.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 18/09/2026

This is the picture I show to my stylist when she asks how I want my hair.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 16/09/2026

I don’t worry about getting older because my parents still look great for their age.

Two giant tortoises sitting close together and looking like an elderly couple

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 15/09/2026

We told them not to. We said “Hey, we need those things! We can’t generate electricity without them!” But they just laughed and kept chanting “Candy! Candy! Candy!”

Two gummy bears and the article headline “Michigan researchers transform old wind turbine blades into tasty gummy bear”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 11/09/2026

I hope it’s with your mouth, because that’s how I’ve been doing it. 🤞

Two bowls of flaxseed and the headline “What’s the best way to eat flaxseed?”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 04/09/2026

1. It’s at Notre Dame 2. Either AC or DC will be there 3. Make sure you’re ready to rock when the concert starts. Yes, they WILL check!

Two guys from AC/DC performing and the article headline “Going to the AC/DC concert at Notre Dame? Here’s what you need to know.”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 03/09/2026

The archeologists are raising money for his congressional campaign.

Stone walls, pyramids, and the article headline “Archaeologists discover a 4,000-year-old”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 03/09/2026

If you guys like this joke, there’s a story in The Doom Tapes that will be right up your alley. mybook.to/doomtapes/

The cover of The Doom Tapes, a science fiction short story collection by D.N. Schmidt. It is floating on a starry background next to the words “Retro nostalgia meets cosmic chaos! From video store clerks battling aliens to a high-stakes asteroid heist, these stories deliver interstellar excitement!”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 01/09/2026

The geologist said we could get stoned, the astronomer said we could get high, and the criminologist told us to lean closer and speak into his desk lamp.

An illustration of a woman exhaling smoke and the article headline “we asked scientists is it okay to use a little cannabis?”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 28/08/2026

Thanks to the folks who picked up They Ate The Waitress this week! Happy reading! mybook.to/atethewaitre...

The cover of They Ate The Waitress, a funny mystery novel by D.N. Schmidt. The book is on a dinner plate and surrounded by story elements in the book: drug-addled detective, murder mystery, cannibalism, ray guns, cat puns, furniture falling from the sky. Available at Amazon now.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 27/08/2026

🎵 Heroes who are roaches! Needle power! 🎵

A cockroach with electronic gadgetry on it, and the headline “tiny cockroaches with tiny syringes designed to join search and rescue teams in major disasters”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 20/08/2026

Oh man, I remember Bottle #1,277! I was listening to Doolittle for the first time and my eyes started getting dry right around Crackity Jones, but she came to my rescue and my eyes felt better than ever. Now Bottle #1,278, that was a different story. I found him in the couch cushions…

A woman using eye drops and the article headline “40,000 bottles of eye drops recalled”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 18/08/2026

Reasons to read Inspiration Overdose: 💡 Like a never ending writing prompt game 🪛 Story ideas and creativity tools with endless combinations 💀 Kills writer’s block for good 🌲 Unlike some books, you can read it aloud without summoning evil forest spirits mybook.to/inspirationo...

The cover of Inspiration Overdose, a story idea generator by D.N. Schmidt, surrounded by images illustrating the ideas that can be found in the book - dragons, zombies, spaceships, and more.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 18/08/2026

Possums carry their young in a pouch, but opossums only see their kids every other weekend.

A possum on a fence and the headline “The real difference between possums and opossums”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 14/08/2026

Depends on what the problem is, really. Too much space junk? Sure. Failing algebra class? Not so much.

An illustration of a black hole in space and the article headline “Active supermassive black holes may help”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 08/08/2026

Make sure you come early to get a good seat. If you get stuck in the back row, they’re a little hard to see.

An illustration of neurons and the headline “engineered spiral neurons show”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 07/08/2026

I can’t get my dog to pick up his toys, but cats are out there fixing potholes.

A mountain lion and the headline “mountain lions may be making roads safer”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 24/07/2026

Pet rocks, roller disco, and the Dorothy Hamill haircut.

A dingy yellow picture of a cereal aisle and the article headline “General Mills is bringing back three products from the seventies”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 22/07/2026

Kill writer's block for good! Inspiration Overdose is like a never ending writing prompt game! Enjoy story ideas and creativity tools with trillions of combinations! Great for fantasy stories, science fiction, horror, and more! Exclamation points! mybook.to/inspirationo...

The cover of Inspiration Overdose by D.N. Schmidt, surrounded by images representing story ideas - A UFO, a zombie, a rocket, an atom, a dragon, and a solar system.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 19/07/2026

Managed to get a photo of a bunny hanging out in my front yard

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 18/07/2026

Want to help a conman steal an asteroid? Play poker with parasites? Battle the galaxy's deadliest meatloaf? Check out these 15 weird science fiction stories in The Doom Tapes! #sff #booksky mybook.to/doomtapes/

A static-covered television with the words "How can a VHS tape doom humanity? Read before it's too late." Next to it is a copy of the science fiction short story collection The Doom Tapes by D.N. Schmidt.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 13/07/2026

“Who are you and what are you doing in my house?”

Two corn on the cobs on a plate and the article headline “We asked four chefs the best way to cook corn on the cob and they all said the same thing”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 03/07/2026

Jay Jordan thought space junk salvage would be easy money. Just find an old ship that nobody’s using, and grab it. But then he got hired by gangsters who sent him to a weird mystery spot that warped his crew’s minds. Now everyone in the galaxy wants to steal his claim. mybook.to/screamingvoid/

A bunch of arrows pointing to the cover of The Screaming Void, a space opera novel by D.N. Schmidt, floating over a purplish starry background. The arrows point out the interesting elements in the book, including ray guns, spaceships, space madness, knife fights, space gangsters, a mysterious cult, aliens, and cat science.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 02/07/2026

The Grinch should stop complaining about Christmas noises and focus on the loudest holiday of the year.

The Grinch Who Blew Up Freedom Day

It was two in the morning, and the Grinch was awake. Every two seconds, his whole house would shake.

It was Freedom Day, the worst time of year. The constant explosions filled him with fear.

The Whos were dancing with their dads and their moms, enjoying their freedoms, and great big bombs.

They didn’t care who they annoyed, as long as they got the big booms they enjoyed.

“Bomb-haters are just silly nerds and dumb geeks. Big booms are fun, so we’ll boom them for weeks!

Who cares about you? You’re you and not me. I have cash to burn but no empathy.”

At last the poor Grinch finally had enough. He’d go down to Whoville and steal all their stuff!

He took all their bombs and all their rockets, and carried them off in his cargo shorts pockets.

He piled them in a cave under the town, and launched the town up. It never came down!

After that, the world was a quieter place, thanks to those jerks being stuck in outer space.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 01/07/2026

A waitress at a restaurant for cannibals end up on the menu. Can a drug-addled detective solve this weird murder mystery, or will he end up flattened by falling furniture? ⚡📚 📚💙 #booksky mybook.to/atethewaitress

The cover of They Ate The Waitress, a funny mystery novel by D.N. Schmidt, and the words “How do you solve a murder mystery when the evidence has been eaten?”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 26/06/2026

Writer's block got you stuck? How about a creativity chainsaw? Inspiration Overdose has writing prompts and creativity tools with over 4 septillion combinations! Available in paperback, ebook, Kindle Unlimited, and weird dream. #writingcommunity #WriteSky www.amazon.com/Inspiration-...

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 21/06/2026

Tonight’s dinner is sausage, broccoli, and gnocchi on a bed of lettuce and spinach, with a bit of mozzarella cheese. I thought it came out very pretty.

A white pasta plate with sausage, broccoli, and gnocchi on a bed of lettuce and spinach, with a bit of mozzarella cheese.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 21/06/2026

Thanks to the people who picked up Inspiration Overdose today! I hope it sparks the idea for your next great story. Happy writing!

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 16/06/2026

The Doom Tapes book review: I think I did a great job. Way to go, me! Five stars. mybook.to/doomtapes

The science fiction short story collection The Doom Tapes floating in space, next to the words “Retro nostalgia meets cosmic chaos! From video store clerks battling an alien invasion to a high stakes asteroid heist, these fifteen science fiction stories deliver interstellar excitement!”

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 14/06/2026

Roscoe invited a friend over to play. This is Yoshi! Yoshi looks happy because I have a treat in my hand, but Roscoe looks like he’s worried that Yoshi will eat it all. (Don’t worry, they both got some.)

Yoshi, a black and white, smiling German Shepherd/Husky mix, and Roscoe, a brown and white Doberman/Australian Shepherd mix standing behind him

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 11/06/2026

People are talking about why books ended up in their DNF pile. I’ve given up on several SFF books that introduced way too much world building at once. Ideas need breathing room, otherwise readers can get exhausted keeping track of them all. Your opening paragraph shouldn’t look like this:

An exhausting opening paragraph from a hypothetical science fiction novel:

My AI MindGuide assured me that the Robo-Wasps that killed 87% of the population in the DNA Wars couldn't break through Invinci-Glass, as it was even stronger than Calrokian Turbo-Steel, but my pet zorgg still had to calm me with a PsyTrance. I was meditating on the floor of my Multiverse Ship when Cassie, my simulated holo-girlfriend, materialized from her Time Crystal. Thanks to our BrainChip connection, I knew right away that something was wrong. "It's Grapptox!" she said. "The Martian anti-ghost vaccines have been stolen by inter-dimensional pirates from Universe Containment Cell Twelve!"

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 03/06/2026

Thanks to the people who picked up Inspiration Overdose today! I hope it sparks the idea for your next great story. Happy writing! mybook.to/inspirationo...

The cover of Inspiration Overdose, a creativity boosting book by D.N. Schmidt. The cover features an illustration of a yellow head surrounded by symbols representing the ideas the book will inspire, like dragons, spaceships, zombies, planets, and more.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 21/05/2026

Looking for weird? Try They Ate The Waitress! A waitress at a restaurant for cannibals end up on the menu. Can a drug-addled detective solve the crime before he gets flattened by falling furniture? ⚡📚 📚💙 #booksky mybook.to/atethewaitress

The cover of They Ate The Waitress, a murder mystery by D.N. Schmidt, sitting on a plate with a fork and knife. It is surrounded by arrows pointing out the book's many features: a drug-addled detective, murder mystery, cannibalism, cat puns, furniture falling from the sky, and available at Amazon now.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 21/05/2026

Google is starting to look like those spam sites covered in buttons to "DOWNLOAD OUR FREE SOFTWARE NOW" that each lead to a different virus.

A screenshot of the Google homepage showing how desperate they are for people to use their AI garbage with an AI Mode button in the search box, a Gemini link below that, another AI Mode button, an AI image generator button, and more.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 18/05/2026

I also enjoy Wilko's version of Settlers of Catan, "The Robber Has Taken All I Have And Now My Family Will Starve".

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 11/05/2026

Personally, I don’t care for it. Maybe go with Pamela instead?

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 28/04/2026

Gee, I wonder what new thing could be hurting people’s cognitive abilities.

An article with the headline “Gen Z reports early cognitive decline.” Below the headline is an ad for a generative AI “vibe coding” class.

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D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 28/04/2026

Looking for weird? Try these science fiction stories: * A poker game with parasites from another dimension. * A waitress at a space truck stop battles a monstrous meatloaf. * A trio of robots searches for their new home. And many more! mybook.to/doomtapes

The cover of The Doom Tapes, a science fiction collection by D.N. Schmidt. It is floating in space with the words “Retro nostalgia meets cosmic chaos! From video store clerks battling aliens to a high-stakes asteroid heist, these stories deliver interstellar excitement!”

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